Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his BA at Washington and Lee University and a PhD in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.
Back to Blood dazzles so much that you might want to read it through dark glasses -- Simon O’Hagan * Independent on Sunday * Tom Wolfe returns with a thunderous thwack, fizzing outrageously with a slipstreamed comet of a novel… It’s even better than his great hit The Bonfire of the Vanities. Unmissable stuff -- Tom Adair * Scotsman * Exhilarating… The satire is scalpel-like and very funny. -- Wynn Wheldon * Spectator * Energising, fascinating – and utterly exhausting. -- Tim Walker * Independent * If this novel were rushed into A&E, it would immediately be put under heavy sedation. -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times *